The Moto X has finally launched on AT&T, which also gets the early exclusive on Moto Maker customizations. The phone looks great on the outside, but what’s in there? As is tradition when a big phone is released, iFixit has ripped it open and splayed the components out for all to see. Nice of them.

Getting into the Moto X is harder than it first appears. There are a few plastic clips that can be separated from the back plate with a spudger. However, when attempting to hook tools in to pull the backing off, it doesn’t give up so easily. In addition to the clips, there is an adhesive holding the phone together. This was probably done to make the phone feel more sturdy in the hand. Some heat is required to pull the adhesive off. This is a bit of a pain, but it’s also pretty common for modern devices.

Inside is the 2200mAh battery and the NFC tag. Again, the battery is glued in and must be carefully pried out. There is an upper mid-frame panel held in with easy to disengage spring pressure contacts. This frees up the top of the mainboard where the cameras can be popped out. The back of the board is strangely plain, but there’s more happening on the other side.

Almost all the components are on this one large circuit board. There is the NAND storage, 2GB of RAM (with the Snapdragon S4 Pro layered under it), and various other controllers. One interesting item is the Texas Instruments MSP430 F5259 Mixed Signal Microcontroller. TI calls this an “always-on” sensor hub. This is likely part of the Motorola X8 platform.

Once the board is out, the display itself is all that’s left in the casing. As usual, the digitizer is fused to the display, which make repairs more expensive in the event of damage. The iFixit folks don’t seem to irked about that, or anything else really. They assigned the Moto X a repairability score of 7 out of 10.